The symposium brings together policy makers, academics and business leaders to the INSEAD Middle East Campus in Abu Dhabi to share and discuss the latest cutting edge evidence on entrepreneurship and decent jobs in the MENA region.

All papers that present an alternative economic perspective on the conference theme 'The European Union: the Threat of Disintegration' are welcome. In particular, we encourage submissions specific to one of the workshop topics.

TAKE 2016 will have the following objectives: a) To analyze the relation between the theory and the applications the economy of the 21st century. b) To understand how to improve the management of the knowledge based economy we live in. c) To analyze the today’s economy putting together...

Three lectures on economic design will be given on Monday 27 June 2016 in Lund, Sweden, by - Professor Federico Echenique, Caltech "Revealed Preference Theory" - Professor Lars Ehlers, University of Montreal "Strategy-Proofness in Markets with Indivisibilities" - Professor William Thomson,...

The aim of the workshop is to discuss new research on the importance of information frictions for macroeconomic fluctuations. Suitable paper topics include: - Information and sentiments as sources of aggregate movements - Heterogeneity in information, beliefs and expectations - Confidence and...

PhD students and young scholars (PhD degree after January 2009) on history of economic thought, economic philosophy and economic history are invited to apply to this Summer School. The Summer School will include a series of seminars and lectures by invited speakers on the theme Economic crises...

CEF.UP (U. Porto) and NIPE (U. Minho) are jointly organizing a Workshop on recent research developments based on LEED (linked employer-employee data). We aim to promote the interaction of researchers within this community by creating a forum for the discussion of applied and theoretical...

Presently, and amidst a substantial number of National Debt crises in European Union’s countries, there is widespread agreement that the functions of the Government need rethinking. This conference intends to promote the debate about the role of the State in the Economy. The Department of...

The conference will include papers which explore these and related topics across a range of empirical contexts and from a number of theoretical angles. Themes will include: sense-making of risk; health policy; mental health policy; risk governance; risk and crime; professional approaches to risk;...